35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. …
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-37)The greatest delinquent in the house of Ahab was Jezebel: it was she that introduced Baal, slew the Lord’s prophets, contrived the murder of Naboth, stirred up her husband first, and then her sons, to do wickedly; a cursed woman she is here called (2 Kgs. 9:34), a curse to the country, and whom all that wished well to their country had a curse for. Three reigns her reign had lasted, but now, at le…
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